Lawstudent And Coach by Lesbia Harford: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Lawstudent And Coach that begins with:

Each day I sit in an ill-lighted room
To teach a boy; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdefeghhXgdXdgefefXgagccchijicjejbhiX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011101 0101 11101011111 1101 1111011111 1011 1011010101 0011 1111011111 0101 11001010001 11001 1111110011 0111 0111010101 0101 1011110101 1101 1100111111 0101 1101101101 01010 01001011111 0101 0111100101 0111 1101110101 1011 1101010001 1111 0101010101 1111 1101010101 1011 0100010111 0100 10001011111 1101 1111000111 11000
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1246
  • Average number of words per stanza: 237
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, his, you are repeated.

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